The BC Lions won the Grey Cup under Head Coach Wally Buono on 27 November 2011.
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Wally Buono
Wally Buono
A football player turned well-known coach
Date of birth
1950
Point of origin
Italy
Buono came to Canada with his family in 1953, played football in college and in the Canadian Football League and retired as a player in 1977.
Wally Buono played for ten years in the CFL before establishing himself as one of the sports’ great coaches with the Calgary Stampeders and the BC Lions.
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Wally Buono, 1950- , Italy.
Buono came to Canada with his family in 1953, played football in college and in the Canadian Football League and retired as a player in 1977. He moved into coaching, notably serving as head coach for the Calgary Stampeders from 1990-2003, and the BC Lions from 2003-2011 and 2016-2018.
